| Essay Archive - Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome
Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome           AIDS is a life and death issue.  To have the  AIDS  diseas is at
present a sentence of slow  but  inevitable  death.   I've already lost one
friend to AIDS.  I may soon lose others. My own sexual  behavior  and  that  of
many  of  my  friends  has  been profoundly altered by it.  In my part of the
country,  one man in10 may already be carrying the AIDS virus. While the figures
may currently be less in much of the rest of the  country,   this  is changing
rapidly.  There currently is neither a cure, nor even an effective treatment,
and no vaccine either.  But there are things th....
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